Yours will be an interesting case to follow, please keep us updated with any news. I hope you will get H4 and ead both adjudicated at the same time. Are you not concerned about an employment gap? that is if you are currently employed?

That is a good strategy, and since you are planning to apply for future date 6 months in advance, the possibility is high that you will get both cos and ead well ahead of time. Please do keep us posted and do add your case to tracker when you do file.

My guess is that you will have H1b extension, H4 and ead all approved at the same time. All the best.

Any one thinking of getting a h4 visa stamped by going to another country eg Canada or any where else....watchout, due to a technical glitch, Visa stamps are not available, no one is getting any kind of visa stamped.

Is there any one in this group that has filed for H1 to H4 and EAD with a future effective date, please post your info on tracker, it might be really useful to gauge how fast the conversion and ead approval is happening.

I have a question for you smart ones. I am on h1, my spouse is on h1, my spouse has i140 approved. if I file for h4 and ead for myself (based on approved ead of my spouse), and if i request uscis to approve h4 effective november 2015, do you think they will approve both h4 and ead in the next few months but keeping effective date to begin in november. This will keep my H1 b valid until November so there is no gap in employment?

H4 EAD dependent can only be allowed to work until the validity of EAD. Once that expires, the EAD extension will have to be filed WHEN ELIGIBLE. All EAD dependent employment will have to cease until the NEW EAD card with current validity is actually physically received by your spouse. Unlike H1b, H4 and EAD will not enjoy continuity of employment.

Starting a new website is a Nobel idea, however I believe you are close to the end of the journey and the new website would not have much traction and therefore might not be as effective in accomplishing the objective. You might as well use the existing avenue that is the tweets that are already in place that already being recognized by the government agencies.

One compelling reason for h4EAD to be implemented before April 1st is the start of H1b season. If God willing, h4HEAD is approved to be implemented on or before April 1st, it will prevent those on h4 from applying to H1b (where eligible), thus leaving more h1b visas available to the lottery pool.
Doing so not only gets more revenue for USCIS, it increases skilled labor pool.

I think that you going for visa stamping makes good sense, if I were you, I would have a detailed discussion with the lawyer ASAP and move to get the visa dates at the earliest. However it would be to your benefit if your client lets you delay you coming back by a month or so, such that you can get more number of days n H1b recapture, and that gives you that much more time to get your Labor approved.